racemose
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Every variety of racemose and paniculate inflorescence obtains, and the number of spikelets composing those of the large kinds is often immense.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various
Flowers.—White; two lines across; in terminal racemose panicles.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons
In such cases the cymes are described as spiked, racemose, or panicled, according to circumstances.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various
Slender, strict and simple, with few or several racemose or terminal heads, like those of the last; leaves lanceolate or linear, the lower usually long and narrow.—S. W. Va., and southward.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
Flowers.—Axillary on solitary peduncles; sometimes becoming racemose by the diminution of the upper leaves to bracts.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons
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